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Direct linkEric Horowitz; Daphna Oyserman; Morteza Dehghani; Sorensen Nicholas – Grantee Submission, 2020
Introduction: Despite the assumed importance of school-focused possible identities for academic motivation and outcomes, interventions rarely assess the effect of the intervention on possible identities. This may be due to difficulty coding open-ended text at scale but leaves open a number of questions: 1) how do school-focused possible identities…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Identification (Psychology)
Eric Horowitz; Daphna Oyserman; Morteza Dehghani; Nicholas Sorensen – Journal of Adolescence, 2020
Introduction: Despite the assumed importance of school-focused possible identities for academic motivation and outcomes, interventions rarely assess the effect of intervention on possible identities. This may be due to difficulty coding open-ended text at scale but leaves open a number of questions: 1) how do school-focused possible identities…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Identification (Psychology)
Murphy, Mary; Destin, Mesmin – Century Foundation, 2022
Low-income, first-generation, and racial/ethnic minority students encounter unique challenges in higher education because they contend with fewer economic and social resources, and fewer familial role models who have successfully navigated college. Just as importantly, these students contend with negative cultural stereotypes and expectations…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Minority Group Students, Ethnic Groups, Racial Differences
Gilliland, Sandra Le' Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The current research examined the relationship between two non-academic factors associated with retention: emotional intelligence (EI) and spiritual formation. The primary goal of this research was to determine whether using a combination of academic and non-academic factors could increase the researcher's ability to identify students most at risk…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Dropouts, Correlation, Academic Persistence
Richardson, Michelle; Abraham, Charles; Bond, Rod – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
A review of 13 years of research into antecedents of university students' grade point average (GPA) scores generated the following: a comprehensive, conceptual map of known correlates of tertiary GPA; assessment of the magnitude of average, weighted correlations with GPA; and tests of multivariate models of GPA correlates within and across…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Pemberton, W. A. – 1970
This paper is a review of opinion and research concerning the objectivity and relevance of grades and grade averages as measures and as predictors of success. As measures they are ambiguous, reflecting differences in sex, basic temperament, instructors, departments, institutions, as much as levels of competence. And as a predictor of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Students
